I saw this on Drudge Report yesterday and was going to submit this as a Slog Tip but I just assumed the Slog would find it in the natural course of events, or that hundreds of others would also submit it.

didn't they discontinue the catalogue a couple of years ago? why does a&f taunt us with these one-off photos? i want more! i'd really like a VR copy of these guys.

When I was a teenager, I'd make my mom buy me the A&F catalog, then I'd bring it to school and we'd pass it around like it was a Penthouse or somethiing. Those were the days...

Every day that I get on the bus I see some kids ass crack or underwear. In most cases it does offend my aesthetics. Let's face it, this fashion statement became so widespead because people WANT to look like this. Unfortunately 95% of people who wear their pants like this just subject the rest of us to unwanted views of their skank ass or underwear. It's like girls in lowrise jeans. Only 5% of the population looks good in those yet so many girls wear them and it's just wrong.

get fired?!?!?! i think someone's getting a raise!

Yeah, well it offends my aesthetics every time I see some fogey's nuts splitting the difference of his highwater pants, but you don't see me complain. PS I look good in lowrise jeans - enjoy da butt!

Dan's getting a raise all right.

The best thing that ever happened to fashion was saggers and nothing pisses some people off more than saggers. This image is not necessarily a sagger. More like just a guy pulling up his pants in a casual setting on a sunny day . The whole sagger thing is getting old but nothing turns me on more than that look no matter how old it gets.
Let's face it everything is in fashion.

just say NO to crack!

wait, are we outraged by the guys with low pants or the chick with no pants?

In Virginia Beach, it is illegal to use "foul language" on the boardwalk. Really, you will get arrested.

Meanwhile, in the same shopping mall:

- Victoria's Secret is now required to cover all its scantily clad mannequins with full-length burkas

- The Gap has been instructed to rename itself "The Space Between Things", while Banana Republic will henceforth be known simply as "Republic"; Dick's Sporting Goods will be called "Richard's", and Foot Action will now be called "A Place That Just Sells Shoes".

- Baskin Robbins may no longer place two scoops of ice cream side-by-side in the same bowl

- Mrs. Fields is now required to sell only raw dough, to insure that no one actually burns any of its cookies

- Cherry Pie has been removed from Applebee's menu

I am bewildered that anyone found this offensive... I am further shocked that some poor retail manager making $10 an hour spent even 10 seconds in jail or at a police precinct over this photo. The cops in VA beach must not have a goddamn thing to do to waste their time pandering to an assumedly tiny group of people who clearly have large splintery wooden objects lodged firmly in their asses.

P.S. Holy shit I love halk naked boys.

P.P.S. On close inspection I believe the girl is not running through a field sans pants... She appears to be wearing booty shorts of some kind.

Good thing the Saturday Evening Post wasn't published in the same town as Pat Robertsons' operation.

someone in A&F’s marketing department is going to get fired

why? this is the first time that a lot of people have even thought about Abercrombie & Fitch in years.

@5: They'll be getting fired for their campaign being found NOT to appeal to prurient interests. Obviously the person is not doing their job well enough.

Any ad man for a clothing store that makes a bigger splash with their models NOT wearing their clothes is a marketing genius!

I'm confused. Is he pulling them up, or pushing them down?

The picture is more fun if you imagine a sheep just outside the frame.

hot ads...shitty clothes...the AF tradition continues...

hot, but arty ads...moralizing shitheads...the traditions of the rightwing religious right, continue...

I find myself imagining days of yore, that is before the models' parents were in puberty, when one might run across a field with friends to go skinny dipping on a hot summer day.

So they can put the picture in the paper, but not in a store. Oh that's right, the young people of Virginia never look at a newspaper.

Are they kidding? The A and F here has always had posters and videos going in the store that are way worse than that one. Do they still make that catalog that you have to be 18 to buy?

Honestly, though, what is the problem with this one? That there are shirtless guys?

@16. i get the joke, did you get mine? @7 did. besides, this is really the best... get arrested but the charges dropped? that's advertising!

"Only 5% of the population looks good in those yet so many girls wear them and it's just wrong."

Yes, but the guy in this photo is someone who looks good. Totally fine.

Plus, this isn't exactly supposed to send the message to wear saggy pants, it's supposed to be an image of a very hot guy taking off (or pulling on?) the pants that fit perfectly fine.

I hope they checked for deer ticks after the photo shoot....

So lemme get this straight... some tubby, shrimp-eating plumber named Bubba in Virginia Beach can bend over and display an acre of hairy butt-crack and that's okay. But anyone so thin they couldn't possibly subsist on a traditional Southern Diet is "obscene"?

If they really want to impress me with their moral standards they'd outlaw divorce and give adultery a minimum prison sentence.

And I thought Florida was backwards...

ha! it's always the media that makes things worse...just like when they played don imus' "unacceptably inappropriate" comments over and over until every single one of us who have never listened to imus memorized and twistedly glamourized it. if it's bad for THEM to expose us to these things, it's bad for you too, media! cnn should have lost it's sponsors!